Citizen Science: Manager’s Report
Acadia National Park
28 August 2023 - 03 September 2023

Introduction

Welcome to the weekly report of iNaturalist and eBird records. These are all observations submitted from 28 August 2023 to 03 September 2023 for the species that Acadia National Park managers have identified as being of particular interest.

These data for this report comes from open source citizen science projects: iNaturalist and eBird. The records here are both casual and research grade observations, so erroneous identifications are possible.

Pest & Invasive Species

A Hemlock tree infested with Hemlock Woolly Adelgid
© Jesse Wheeler
scientific.name common.name user observed.on link
Frangula alnus alder buckthorn cvschmitt 2023-08-29 view observation
Litylenchus crenatae beech leaf disease tomasmya 2023-08-28 view observation
Solanum dulcamara bittersweet nightshade critterbliss 2023-08-30 view observation
Rosa rugosa rugosa rose kathymhixson 2023-08-29 view observation
Rosa rugosa rugosa rose bgsmith 2023-09-03 view observation
Rosa rugosa rugosa rose govatski 2023-09-03 view observation

Threatened & Endangered Species

Two Red Knots in flight
© Fyn Kynd
scientific.name common.name listing.status observed.on link
Nycticorax nycticorax black-crowned night-heron state endangered 2023-08-29 view observation
Falco peregrinus peregrine falcon state endangered 2023-08-28 view observation
Falco peregrinus peregrine falcon state endangered 2023-08-29 view observation

Rare Species

A flowering Nodding Trillium
© Andy Fyon
scientific.name common.name observed.on link
Trifolium hybridum alsike clover 2023-08-28 view observation
Medeola virginiana cucumber root 2023-08-29 view observation
Danaus plexippus monarch 2023-09-01 view observation
Securigera varia purple crownvetch 2023-08-28 view observation

New Park Species

A something
© Kyle Lima

There were no new species to the park reported this week.

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This project was made possible in part by a grant from the National Park Foundation.

Background art of Acadia National Park © Ben Tero.

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Data Citations:
iNaturalist. Available from https://www.inaturalist.org. Accessed [2023-09-04].

eBird. eBird: An online database of bird distribution and abundance [web application]. eBird, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Available: http://www.ebird.org. (Accessed: Date [ 2023-09-04 ]).

GBIF.org (14 February 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.pqwpft

GBIF.org (14 February 2023) GBIF Occurrence Download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hhz84h

Michonneau F, Collins M, Chamberlain SA (2023). ridigbio: An interface to iDigBio’s search API that allows downloading specimen records. R package https://github.com/iDigBio/ridigbio

SCAN. 2023. http//:scan-bugs.org/portal/index.php. Accessed on February 14.